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...lecturer in the department of near eastern languages and civilizations. Prior to his Harvard career—which has involved earning three advanced degrees at the University—Ellison served as an Emergency Medical Technician for a year and a police officer for four years in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Ellison could not be reached for comment. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...variety of factors are speeding a shakeout. They include falling oil prices and Russia's war with Georgia, which spooked foreign investors and sparked capital flight. Of course, the tumult on Wall Street and the general seizing up of global finance has caused a liquidity squeeze for banks worldwide. But the root cause of Russia's current crisis is homegrown: wannabe oligarchs who used debt to continue doubling down while the going was good, only to find themselves on shaky ground now that the market has turned. As one wag said this month, it's a case of minigarchs turning...
Mikheil Saakashvili President of Georgia...
...that Russia hasn’t acted aggressively to reassert itself as the dominant regional power. In 2006, to cite just one example, Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas conglomerate, cut off supplies to Ukraine to influence domestic Ukrainian politics. But Russia’s actions toward Georgia in August cannot be viewed in a simplistic framework of unilateral Russian bullying...
...Still, the McCain-Palin ticket has used this conflict to step up its vitriolic rhetoric. Mr. McCain wants to expel Russia from the G8 and reconsider further WTO accession talks. And both he and Ms. Palin are committed to expanding NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine. In her interview, Palin stated that the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine “have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, should be in NATO...